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TechWorks Open House

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The hacker space Saskatoon TechWorks will be holding an open house Saturday, August 25.  The event will take place from 1PM to 9PM at 220 20th St W, Saskatoon.

We at Frivolous Engineering are big supporters of the hacker space movement and want to help in any way we can.  We’ve sent a couple of free Ultimate Useless Machines for them to raffle off and some Ultimate Useless Kits for them to sell.

I encourage everyone in the Saskatoon area to attend this event and support TechWorks.  There will be live entertainment, free food & drink, and some very cool projects to check out.

Festival Sized Bug Zapping!

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Eth0:2012 Summer, an outdoor high-tech geek conference in the Netherlands had a bug problem:

As the eth0 summer site is located in a forest next to a lake an unprecendeted amount of flying critters had made their way to the camp in search of blikenlights while in the process annoying the hackers. However, before the bugs where capable of mounting a propper attack, two (Eighdot, Sa007) of the visitors devised a plan to create the largest bug zapper ever seen.

As you can see in the video below, it’s putting an appreciable dent in the local flying insect population.

Via:  Hackaday

Results of the Hacker Space Meeting

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Last night I attended the first meet-up of CrashBangLabs, a hacker space that is forming here in Regina.  More than 50 people attended and it looks to me like we have the critical mass needed to make this work.

The most impressive thing for me was being in the same room with over 50 like-minded people:  folks who want to get their hands dirty and MAKE stuff.

A hacker space is more than just a place with tools and equipment, it’s the people who MAKE it happen.  And judging from the folks I met last night, CrashBangLabs is off to a great start:  almost every who attended the meeting signed up and intends to become a dues-paying member.  The next steps will be incorporating the hacker space as a non-profit organization and finding a suitable location.

Hats off to David Gerhard and Matt Haines who got the ball rolling, and everyone who attended.  You folks MADE my day!

Hacker Space Meeting!

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Folks in Regina are are getting together to form a hacker space called CrashBangLabs and there’s an article in our local paper:

Professor David Gerhard (left) and former student Matt Haines who are starting a Hackerspace group.

 

 It’s part of a growing movement known as “maker subculture” — people united by their interest in making things.

“One of the really cool things about hackerspaces in general is that there’s not really a limit on what you can work on,” noted Haines, a software developer.

The meeting will take place at the Owl, 7 PM Wednesday, March 14.

More info can be found here on CrashBangLab’s Facebook Page .

Read the entire article at leaderpost.com.

Regina HackerSpace Meet-up

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Attention all you hackers, Makers and folks who like to tinker with technology:  a hackerspace is being formed in Regina!

CrashBangLabs is looking for people who are interested in helping get this off the ground.  The inception meeting will take place Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at The Owl.

This is something I support and I urge anyone in the Regina area who is interested to surf over to CBL’s facebook page and sign up.

Another Useless Workshop!

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xinchejian, a hackerspace in Shanghai is holding a Useless Machine Workshop on December 4th and it’s only about $25 (RMB160)!  So if you’re in or near Shanghai I urge you to go.

And this isn’t the first time that there have been Useless Machine Workshops.

The closest hackerspace to me is about 120 miles away and I just found out about them while writing this post.  Last time I checked the closest one was about 500 miles away.  Maybe it’s time to get one going in my city.

(Edit:  Ask and yea shall receive… turns out there is a local hackerspace forming:  crashbanglabs

I find this idea of Useless Workshops very cool and I would like to encourage more hackerspaces to have them.  If your hackerspace is considering this please contact us:  we can provide help and parts/kits at a steep discount.

 

Edit:  turns out the Chinese government wants to fund 100 community hackerspaces in Shanghai.

Edit:  Make Magazine will be streaming a live video Wednesday night called Hackerspace Roadshow where they will take you to 5 different spaces around the world.

Edit:  Too many edits…